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Anecdotal : I have diagnosed ADD and started lifting (starting strength) some month ago. At first I felt some benefits, I would say almost the same feeling as with Ritalin, but it's almost already gone by now.

I should do more cardio to see if it's the same.

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I take it you're predominantly inattentive (you omit the letter H). I see on the ADHD web sites they always advocate exercise, and I dismiss it out of hand every time as something I don't think would apply to me. I tend to think of the typical /r/ADHDer as being quite different from me, and not someone that I would even like, really.

So you're saying that that stuff applies for inattentives too?

I was under the impression the majority of /r/ADHDer's are PI or combined type. I recall hearing that most people with ADHD fall in one of those categories.

Exercise has a huge benefit for me, and I am PI as well.

Benefits to the point that my wife will bend over backwards to find time for me to exercise, completely out of selfish reasons.

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